of brooklyn



Patented Jan. 22, 1924.

STATES ania if. FFEQ.

SPENCER C. CARY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO CARY.MAIQI'UFACTUBING CO., OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

BINDER CONNECTION.

Application filed December 9, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SPENCER C. CARY, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn,

county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a certain new anduseful Binder Connection, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a device for connecting or joining the end portions ofa binder for shipping packages.

In this art it is required that the binder be applied under tension to apackage with a View to drawing the components of the package into firmrelation one to the other.

Difliculty has been experienced in uniting the end portions of thebinder while it is under tension for the major part of its length aroundthe package, and it is the object of my invention to supply a connectionby which the binder ends can be locked, or locked and sealed, in asimple, efficient and expeditious manner.

To these ends, the invention consists of a sleeve into which the endportions of the binder are inserted, said end portions being twistedinto locking engagement with said sleeve.

Other features and advantages of the invention will appear from theannexed description taken in connection with the drawings, wherein Fig.1 is a plan view illustrating a binder with my lock, or look and seal,applied in a closed condition.

Fig. 2 is a view illustrating the method of adjusting the lock or sealprior to twisting the end portions of the binder.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the lock or seal detached from thebinder.

Fig. 4 is a cross section through the'lock or seal.

A designates a binder and B is a lock or seal for the end portions ofsaid binder. As herein shown, the binder is a wire, usually of circularcross section and of relatively small diameter. Said binder is appliedunder tension to the shipping package, for which purpose I have designedand useda stretcher of one form or another as disclosed in priorapplicationsfor patents. By the operation of an appropriate implement,the binder is stretched for the major part of its length around ashipping package, the end portions of said binder being free or 111'Serial No. 343,554.

confined. As a matter of practical operation, the binder is of suchlength that when stretched the end portions will overlap to and in apreferred form, it is a double sleeve.

The seal, in one form is bent or struck up from a single piece of flatsheet metal, the same being folded r creased along the median line ofthe sleeve so as to produce a channel or groove 6, and the metal on therespective sides of the grooveis then doubled or folded to produce theparallel tubular members 0 (Z, the edges of the metal meeting along theline e,-and producing a double sleeve as a single unitaryf article.Said,

sleeve, or double sleeve, is provided atone end with a notch f in themetal of the tubular member 0, whereas the sleeve is provided at theother end with a notch g in the metal of the other tubular member cl.The function of said notches is to receive the bent or twisted endportions of the binder, and to retain the same in the required relationto the sleeve, i. e. to preclude the binder ends from becoming bent ordeflected outwardly relatively to the shipping packages and to keep saidend portions into close and substantially parallel relation to the seal.

The binder is positioned around the pack age in any desired manner or byany preferred means, and before or after placing said binder undertension, the double sleeve is slipped over and up'onthe adjacent endportions of the binder. in the practical operation of applying thebinder, it is placed around the package, and certain grippers of astretching'tool are engaged with the end portions of said binder. Priorto operating the stretching tool, the double sleeve is adjusted byinserting one end of the binder into the tubular member 0 whereas theother end portion of the binder-is inserted. into the other tubularmember d, said two end portions passing in oppositedirections throughthe respective members of the doublesleeve. The stretching tool is nowoperated for placw ing the required tension upon the binder, drawing itinto contact tightly with the shipping package, in fact, the binder isdrawn so tightly as to embed it into the material'of said package,particularly at the cornersthereof. The effect of stretching the binderis to compress the shipping package and to draw upon the binder near theends so as to cause said end portionsto project beyond the opposite endportions of the sleeve, see Fig. 2. The protrudingiend portions ofthevbinder are free from the strain of the stretching tool, and saidprotruding ends are bent or twisted backwardly into locking engagementwith the end portions of the sleeve. For this purpose it is preferred touse atool of acharacter disclosed in a copending application, filed evendate herewith, by the operation of which. tool the two end portions ofthe wire are bent in opposite directions, and simultaneously, one endportion of said binder being turned in one direction, as at h, alongsidethe tubular member 0, whereas theother end portion of the binder isturned in an opposite direction as at z alongside -the other tubularmember (Z, see Fig. 1. i In the operationof twisting the end portions 7t2' of the binder, the loops inthe binder are forced into the notches fg, and said ends it true bent into parallel relation to the sleeve so asto lie in the plane thereof and to occupy positions close to thesurfaces of the sleeve. The ends h z of the binder are thus locked withthe notched end portions of the double sleeve, in a manner to minimizeany displacement of the bent end portions during the operations ofhandling and shipping the packagerin fact, the twisted ends of saidbinder are out of the way and locked in. place securely so that theycannot be pulled apart, nor-is it possible to break the seal withoutaflording evidence of the attempt to tamper with it.

From one standpoint, it is possible to use a single sleeve of therequired, length and possessing such diameter as toreceive the two endsof the binder; but the double sleeve is considered desirable for thereason that each end of the binder can be threaded or passed throughsaid sleeve without interference with by the other end portion of saidbinder, the wall of the sleeve which intervenes the two tubular membersacting as a separator to preclude contact and interference when applyingthe sleeve to the hinder, or vice versa.

It is desired to call attention to the fact that in my binder connectionthereis no deformation of the sleeve or tubular element in order to lockand seal the respective end portions of the binder. On the contrary, thesleeve remains in its original form after sealing the binder, but theend portions of said binder are,by a simpleand easily performedoperation, lockedto the sleeve so as to securely seal and lock thebinder in order to keep the ends from pulling out of the sleeve underthe tension of the binder and the strain to which said binder issubjected when the package is handled, shipped or stored.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new anddesire'to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A binder seal embodying a body portion composed of a single pieceof'metal i'olded upon itself and producing aplurality ofnon-compressible tubular members posi: tioned side by side and spaced inpermanent relation one to the other by an intervening wall.

2. A- bindcr seal embodying a portion composed of a singlepiece of-metalfolded upon itself and producing a plurality of. noncompressibletubularmembers and a wall intervening said tubular membersandseparatingthe passages. therein, each tubular member being providedwith a binder-1eceivingnotch in the wall at one end portion thereof. i

3. A, binderseal embodying a, one-piece construction comprising aplurality oinoncompressible tubular, members and a; wall interveningsaid tubular'members, said wall separating the passage [of onemember-from the passage of the other member, one, tubular member beingprovided witli. a notch fin one endthereof and the, other tubular memberbeing providedwith a notch in thatend thereof oppositev to the notch intheffirst named member.

4. A binder seal embodying a one, piece construction comprising aplurality of noncompressible tubular membersand a wall unitary withsaid'tubular members ,andseparating the passages therein, saidrsealbeing providedon the outer. faces of said tubular members with notches,one of which is at one end of one tubular member and, the other, of saidnotchesv being, at the opposite end, of the other tubular member.

5. In a binderseal, a, sleeve comprising a plurality of tubularmemberslying in, the same transverse plane, each tubnlar'member having a notchin one end portion thereof, and a binder the respectiveend portions ofwhich are thrust through the tubular members and are doubled baokwardlyfor said doubled portions to be received within the notches whereby thebinder ends are interlocked separately against rotative movement withrespect to the sleeve.

6. As anew article, a, non-compressible binder seal composed of a singlepiece of metal bent to form a flat weband doubled to produce a pluralityof tubular members the openingsinwhicli are separated by an interveningmetal wall, said tulg ular memhers lying in the same transverse planeand each tubular member being provided in one end portion thereof with abinder-receiving notch.

7. As a new article, a non-compressible binder seal composed of a singlepiece of metal bent to form a flat web and doubled to produce aplurality of tubular members the openings in which are separated by anintervening metal wall, said tubular members being parallel to eachother and said members being in a plane substantially parallel to theflat web.

8. As a new article, anon-compressible binder seal comprising a flat weband a r plurality of tubular members the openings in which are separatedby an intervening wall which is independent of the fiat web, the latterconstituting in part the boundary of the openings in the respectivetubular members.

9. In a Binder seal, a non-compressible sleeve comprising a fiat web anda plurality of tubular members unitary with the flat web, said tubularmembers being each provided with a notch, the notch of one tubularmember being in the end portion thereof opposite to the notch in the endportion of the other tubular member, and a binder the end portions ofwhich are doubled into locking engagement with the notches in thetubular members of the seal, said locking engagement of the doubledbinder with the tubular members operating to retain said binder againstrotative movement with respect to the sleeve.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 3rd day ofDecember, 1919.

SPENGER C. CARY.

